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From: "Farhan Khan" <farhan@farhan.codes>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: How to determine when to stop receiving pack content
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 23:47:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1754835efe3aa8a5ac93ee2db4a99c5@farhan.codes> (raw)

Hi,

I am trying to write an implementation of git clone over ssh and am a little confused how to determine a server response has ended. Specifically, after a client sends its requested 'want', the server sends the pack content over. However, how does the client know to stop reading data? If I run a simple read() of the file descriptor:

A. If I use reading blocking, the client will wait until new data is available, potentially forever.
B. If I use non-blocking, the client might terminate reading for new data, when in reality new data is in transit.

I do not see a mechanism to specify the size or to indicate the end of the pack content. Am I missing something?

Thanks
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Farhan Khan
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             reply	other threads:[~2019-08-10 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-10 23:47 Farhan Khan [this message]
2019-08-11 15:04 ` How to determine when to stop receiving pack content Pratyush Yadav
2019-08-11 23:31   ` Farhan Khan
2019-08-12  0:22     ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-08-11 22:38 ` Junio C Hamano

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